Saturday, July 02, 2005

 

And Now, For The Rest Of Paul Harvey's Story:

It's Endloesung for Iraqistan, apparently:

So, following the New York disaster, we mustered our humanity.

We gave old pals a pass, even though men and money from Saudi Arabia were largely responsible for the devastation of New York and Pennsylvania and our Pentagon.

We called Saudi Arabians our partners against terrorism and we sent men with rifles into Afghanistan and Iraq, and we kept our best weapons in our silos.

Even now we’re standing there dying, daring to do nothing decisive, because we’ve declared ourselves to be better than our terrorist enemies -- more moral, more civilized.

Our image is at stake, we insist.

But we didn’t come this far because we’re made of sugar candy.

Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and into this continent by giving small pox infected blankets to native Americans.

Yes, that was biological warfare!

And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever. And we grew prosperous.

And, yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves.

And so it goes with most nation states, which, feeling guilty about their savage pasts, eventually civilize themselves out of business and wind up invaded, and ultimately dominated by the lean, hungry and up and coming who are not made of sugar candy.

I'm so old, I can remember when Paul Harvey finally took to the airwaves to voice his opposition to the Vietnam War. (That happened just when his son became eligible for the draft.)

Somebody over at Disney/ABC (which syndicates his show over Armed Forces Radio) ought to think long and hard about "nudging" old Mr. Harvey off the air. This war could do without its geezer version of Father Couglin.

posted by Michael 8:00 PM